I'm sitting here at the kitchen table with a very delicious cup of coffee. Gabriel helped me make it. I sat down on the kitchen floor when we were done, and then he sat down next to me and said, "I should have a warm drink, and you should have a warm drink."

So now we're at the kitchen table and Gabriel is sipping a cup of warm almond milk with a sprinkling of Ghirardelli mocha powder, making it chocolatey and sweet, with just a leeeeetle bit of coffee flavour like mamma's. Coffee in hand, wearing his Incredible Hulk shirt, he sips quite loudly. I say "yum" over my really welcome cup. Then there's a pause. There's today's issue of Time magazine sitting on the table in front of us, with Mc Cain and Obama on the front.

 

 

 

"So, Gabriel. Who do you think is going to win the presidential election in the United States this year? This guy, or this guy?" and I point.

He looks. Confidently he puts down a chubby finger.

"This guy." Obama wins.

"Why this guy?"

"Because he's the smartest."

"I think he's the smartest too. What about this guy? why isn't he the smartest?"

"Because he's not the coolest. This guy is the coolest."

"This guy's name is Barack Obama."

"What's that guy's name?"

"John McCain."

"John McCain. He's not going to win."

"Gimme five, big kid."

Then we're riffling through the pages, looking for pictures of Joe Biden and Sarah Palin. They are Obama and McCain's "partners". I get to be Biden. Gabe gets to be Obama. We don't find a picture of Biden, but then we see a spread with John and Barack standing in a maze of money, looking determined.

"Gabriel, who's going to win the maze? Who's going to get out of it first?"

Of course. Obama is the favorite here, as well. "Why is he going to win?"

"Because John McCain is going to walk, and Barack Obama is going to run."



We finish our coffee. Gabriel is now drinking water through a minitaure whisk, delighted that he discovered it can also be a straw. Can't wait for November.